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Once in a while a UU says they have trouble with the first UU Principle: “The inherent worth and dignity of every person. I heard that more than once this past Sunday. A scene from the 1980s film “Ironweed which somehow got burned into my memory seems to illustrate that principle. A homeless, very drunken woman has frozen to death on the sidewalk in front of a shelter where she had been turned away. Other homeless people find her. Standing in the bitter cold, they bestow a

July 25, 2010 GLBTIQQ PRIDE SUNDAY by Rev. Emma Chattin Proud of What? ~ Bringing The Other Home How do we celebrate our differences? Perhaps we begin by celebrating that we are different. First Reading ~ Luke 19 : 1-9 Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but he was too short to see over the crowd. So he ran ah

A Talk By James J. Geary Delivered before the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Church 16 May 2010 Chalice Reading The chalice is a symbol. We need symbols in our lives; we can’t do without them. We utilize hundreds of symbols every day, including the words we use. What does the chalice symbolize for you? For me the chalice symbolizes itself ” fire. Think about fire. Fire is energy. Fire is the essence of the universe. Fire is everything. Everything is from fire. Our su

By Rev. Emma Chattin March 14, 2010 First Reading John 6:1-13 Feeding The Five Thousand Some time later, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee-- also called Lake Tiberias --and a huge crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he gave by healing the sick. Jesus climbed the hillside and sat down there with his disciples. It was shortly before the Jewish feast of Passover. Looking up, Jesus saw the crowd approaching and said to Philip, 'Where are we to buy

Sunday service by Robin McNallie 3.28.2010 Readings: 1) “thy eyes look to me mild. Out of maize @ air/ your body’s made and moves. I summon, see, / from the centuries it./I think you won’t stay. How do we/ linger, diminished, in our lovers’ air, / implausibly visible, to whom, a year, / years, over interims; or not;/ to a long stranger; or not; shimmer @ disappear. John Berryman, “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 2) “Sometimes the sun is only shadowed by a cloud that we cannot